Anyhow I'm back in Korea. My school has a new "Smart Board" in the new English Zone with new EVERYTHING. The smart board is like a whiteboard except you can project your computer desktop onto it and use a magic pen to either write on it or move the mouse around and navigate your HUGE computer screen. Of course they had to finish this room of awesome multimedia after I finished most of my teaching. I will get to use it for a few weeks at least. I leave for Thailand next week. I'm excited. I am.
It's about time to begin the going away parties again. Every time I hang out with people in Korea now it will officially be a going away party. There's an official one tomorrow night. I'll try and take some pictures with my NEW CAMERA!!!! I got an obnoxious bright green Olympus u790SW:
It's pretty standard as far as pocket size digital cameras go but it was cheap and the tipping point was that it's WATERPROOF up to 3 meters and SHOCKPROOF up to five feet. I'm all about durability these days. I'm unpacking it now, I wish they wouldn't use so much packaging material. Save the planet man.
Note: I learned today that Jehova's Witnesses prefer the King James Bible because they keep the name Jehova in the Bible instead of replacing it with the that icky generic word God. I thought this Korean dude just really wanted to be my friend when I walked by with Lamb of God blaring in my head phones and he started talking to me while carrying his 19 month old daughter like a football. This was quite the site since I maintain a pace about twice that of the average Korean while walking through town. He proceeded to dump the kid off on his wife and follow me for at least ten blocks making conversation. He was asking all kinds of leading questions like "You say you like to travel, are you searching for something?" Hahaha. After all that I had to humor him while he got out his bible and showed me about 5 verses that did indeed contain words that I had used in our conversation like happiness and money. Apparently I'm a Jehovas Witness and I didn't even know it! Time to abandon all holidays and devote all of my time to the scriptures.
The great part was when I had to tell him what their website is (I used deductive reasoning skills to guess):
www.watchtower.org
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